European Reacts to WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1)

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Andre Reacts

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@andrereacts7 4 ай бұрын

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6PLqJiqgNVqaKcsi=vJsK2nZxETWh-G-A - Part 2

@Whoozerdaddy 4 ай бұрын

There was so much left out. Why the Maginot Line wasn't continued, for instance. Not out of laziness or stupidity, but the belief that Germany would ever attack through the Ardennes. France wasn't the only country to use horses. Germany used more horses that they did motorized vehicles. This is why I *_don't_* watch Oversimplified. Because they are oversimplified, but in a way that gives a skewed view.

@willpat3040 4 ай бұрын

@@Whoozerdaddy Dude, uncool. Lol

@Whoozerdaddy 4 ай бұрын

@@willpat3040 Just being truthful, man.

@jolenewitzel7919 5 ай бұрын

Of course you have to watch part 2.

@j.j.4150 4 ай бұрын

Hitler wasn't thinking from the start he could take over the world at all. But yeah, to get as much territory as possible was the aim.

@bigenglishmonkey 4 ай бұрын

i dunno, his book from the 20s talking about world domination tells me it was on his mind.

@khancrow7015 4 ай бұрын

@@bigenglishmonkey What exact quotes from Hilter's literature implied "world domination"?

@bigenglishmonkey 4 ай бұрын

@@khancrow7015 when he talks about how a united germany and british empires greatest rival in the short term is the USSR, but in the long term their world domination rival in the USA.

@bigenglishmonkey 4 ай бұрын

@@khancrow7015 theres not a quote, its an explanation of his plans for the world. he even planned to do to greece, italy, spain, and portugal, what he wanted to do to the slavs.

@khancrow7015 4 ай бұрын

@bigenglishmonkey If you read his books you should be able to at least summarize a quote from his own literature describing what you claimed he said.... What is so difficult about that? Lol

@OneWomanAndTwoAcres 4 ай бұрын

My mother was in England during WWII. She was shuffled off to family all over the country to keep her out of London and the bombing.

@MsMorri 4 ай бұрын

My grandfather and great uncle were in WWII. They fought against the Japanese. My grandfather was lucky in that he was a mechanic and the only injury he got was from a crab that pinched his nose. Probably giving his fellow soldiers a good laugh as he came dancing out of his tent with a crab holding on to his nose for dear life. My great uncle though wasn't so lucky. He was a scout of some sort, and the only survivor of his group. He managed to defeat a Japanese general that was a samurai, but he came out of his time with the army very scarred. They didn't talk about the war too much though, most of the stories I heard from my mother. I sometimes wish I could ask my grandfather about his experiences now.

@Ameslan1 4 ай бұрын

OverSimplified is one of my FAVORITE KZbin Channels. I love that OverSimplified shows history in a clear, easy to understand with humor making history fun to learn!

@kodiak138 4 ай бұрын

Hmm, from what I learned Hitler did think Mousseline was a little bit incompetent but only later on, but he very much liked him and went above and beyond to help him at the end even diverting troops that he could have used in the Russian front when his generals were asking for reinforcements. It was also said that He was very sad and depressed when he found out he had been hung.

@DeeDeex2 4 ай бұрын

My dad and uncle were in WWII, European front. My uncle landed at Normandy on D Day. My dad was in a bomb disposal squad so he landed in Normandy a few days later to disable any unexploded munitions. Neither my dad nor my uncle would ever talk about their war experience.

@WolfLove89 4 ай бұрын

My grandfather served in Ww2, in the Pacific, all I know is he saved his platoon and earned himself the silver star. My grandfather when I was little never talked about it. I love ww2 history, my brother is retired army, because of my grandfather, he rarely talks about his time in Iraq

@Swissswoosher 4 ай бұрын

If you thought what the Wehrmacht and Red Army did was bad, research how Japanese troops treated prisoners of war and civilians

@David-fm6go 4 ай бұрын

3:46 Germany had and has a strong industrial base, a very educated and skilled workforce, and the largest population in central Europe. Also worth remembering that WWI was a prolonged conflict that drained Germany down, while the initial phase of WWII was fast victories that gave Germany access to the resources (and forced/stolen labor) of a continent to feed their industrial engine.

@angieburks5103 4 ай бұрын

Actually you're a bit wrong originally Hitler was awestruck and essentially thought of Mussolini as a superhero in today's terms. And one of his dying fears was that he would have the exact same thing that was done to Mussolini done to him. He did eventually despise him

@David-fm6go 4 ай бұрын

0:50 Our fixed interpretation of what fascism is needs to be tempered with the historical context, particularly in this period when a lot of new ideologies were coming about and competing against other ideologies for similar or even the same space. Fascism and later Nazism, are amalgamations of existing political concepts, unified by a strong national or racial unifying focus. Also keep in mind that he linear political spectrum is inherently subjective and arbitrary and in this context irrelevant as the ability of someone to start off as Communist or Socialist and then drift towards a different one is as much a real possibility today as it was then.

@Zodia195 3 ай бұрын

I know people are talking about their families' involvement in WWII, and I do too, but from my German side. See my great-grandpa was in WWI (born in England, but lived most of his life in the US). After that War, he ended up watching one of the smaller German towns where he would meet my great-grandma's family. Keep in mind this is the late 1910s, long before Hitler got into office. However, he was popular even back then. Not all Germans liked him though, my great-grandma's family being one of them. My 2-times great-grandfather must have had great foresight because he was scared for his country's future and convinced my great-grandpa to marry one of his daughters so he knew one of his children would be safe in America. He picked my great-grandma. During WWII my great-grandma and Nana would send packages to her family in German and who get letters on what was happening over there. It was awful (and that's putting it mildly). I had relatives, who teens, be forced into the German Army at some point or bad things would happen to my family. They didn't even last a month in service. They had to hide when other armies (especially the Russians) would start coming through. My great-grandma had a bit of a rough time in the US though. Because of her thick German accent, she didn't even talk out in public due public opinion of Germans. In America, once German brands got changed to seperate themselves from Germany. I am very proud of my German family for sticking it out and trying their best to survive a horrendous situation. When I was a baby, my dad (who's an Air Force vet), got stationed in Berlin and the Wall was still up at the time. My aunt and Nana came to visit while we where living there (sadly my great-grandma had passed away by this time, she died before I turned a year old, but there is a 4 gen picture of me, my mom, my Nana, and her). Anyway we got to travel to see our German relatives in that town and my Nana and dad (who had learned some German), were our interpreters and there are pictures of my Nana doing the Chicken Dance (a popular German dance). Since I was still a baby, I was definitely the center of attention too lol. Because I am so protective of my family, a sure fire way to get my POed is to insult them or me in anyway because of my ancestry. This did happen in High School, one of my classmates learned I was of German descent and called me a Nazi to my face. Man did I lay into him good and he did apologize thankfully.

@Blondie42 21 күн бұрын

He glazed over it (oversimplified and all that) but The rape of Nanking was the worst part the war in Asia.

@rol1xgames333 4 ай бұрын

Nice video, now I'll answer a few questions: 1. How did Germany become such a power despite losing World War I? - First, Germany retained its industrial base. Before World War I, Germany was the second industrial power in the world (after the USA) and the largest industrial power in Europe. By preserving this powerful industry, Germany was able to recreate its potential. - Germany was still a very large nation. In terms of population, Germany was the 2nd most populous nation in Europe after the USSR. On the eve of World War II, after the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, they had populations of around 80 million. So Germany had the population base to create a large army. - Because WWI did not end with the capture of German territory, the Germans felt that they had not really lost it. The myth of such a tempting "stab in the back" prevailed - that the army that was still fighting was betrayed by politicians and the revolution (workers, sailors and communists). The Germans wanted revenge for the humiliating defeat, while in other countries that remembered the nightmare of World War I, the mood was rather anti-war. - Moreover, Hitler believed that the army was the most important element of the state, so when he started rearming, he armed himself without any economic considerations. He increased the public debt, made the German currency worthless, etc., because he drove the economy so much towards heavy armaments. No other peacetime country arms itself in this way, because it was armed for one purpose only - for offensive war! Therefore, Germany rearmed at an astronomical pace, rejecting all the restrictions imposed on them by the Treaty of Versailles 2. Why did Hitler want to conquer the whole world? Well, Hitler never wanted to conquer the entire world. In fact, he had only 2 main goals: 1. Defeat France because it was the guarantor of the Versailles order and it was known that France would not allow German domination in Europe. 2. Conquer Eastern Europe, primarily Poland and the USSR - it was in these areas that Hitler wanted to build a living space for the Germans. He didn't really want to go to war in the Balkans, Africa, Italy or against Great Britain (he hoped that after the fall of France the UK would ask for peace), the situation simply forced him to do so. Ps. The British Isles are even smaller than Germany, and yet the British Empire at the peak of its territorial power covered about 1/4 of the globe :)

@oddity7263 3 ай бұрын

huh. I never knew Hitler ended up increasing german debt and making the currency worthless. I thought that happened in the 1923 German hyperinflation which had nothing to do with the nazis which had not come to power. as this is the case, I didn't hear of any revolts of any kind from the german populace if Hitler was damaging their economy in exchange for a good army. surely there must have been some revolts despite the nazi regime's record of iron-fisting dissent into silence. maybe it was due to the fervent propaganda. maybe you could explain it better than me.

@David-fm6go 4 ай бұрын

10:47 Chamberlain comes from a long standing tradition, especially within the British Conservative Party, that prioritized restraint and avoidance of getting entangled into European land wars. On top of that was the memory of WWI hanging over everyone and the desire to avoid the bloody slaughter of the Somme and Ypres being repeated. We can lambast Chamberlain for being detached from the reality on the ground in hindsight, but it is important to understand his motivations. Its gets worse when you know that there was a plot to overthrow Hitler by the German military, which Chamberlain ruined by agreeing to the Munich agreement. Had Chamberlain refused, this plot might have succeeded.

@mr.andmissescammyblue5980 5 ай бұрын

Yes watch part two

@JPMadden 5 ай бұрын

You asked how did Germany recover economically from World War One and the reparations they were told to pay by the winning Allies. It was not possible for Germany to pay the initial amount, so it was reduced, and even that was too much. Germany did have hyperinflation and other severe economic problems in the years after WW1, but the reparations were just one cause. When Nazi Germany began to grow in strength, all countries had been devastated by the Great Depression. France and Great Britain could not have prevented Nazi Germany's economic growth, but they could stopped the military growth. They lacked the political will to go to war again, even when victory would have been easy. The war that Japan won against Russia was the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.

@StevenDietrich-k2w 5 ай бұрын

2 Andre, you should study a little bit of the Japanese atrocities immediately preceding, and during, WW2. The devastation of the civilian populations of China and southeast Asia, the medical experiments on living captives, the treatment of Allied prisoners, etc..

@trappestarrgaming3422 5 ай бұрын

It's scary what ppl can do when their isnt any consequences. And even scarier how much of the things we use everyday came from those and nazi experiments

@Maeshalanadae 4 ай бұрын

Nanking, for instance…the Bataan death march…the concentration camps that everyone held. Must remember that the United States treated their Japanese citizens essentially as enemies during the period. It was also not long after the period when shit was still going on like the sterilization laws.

@Owlincoup 4 ай бұрын

2 of course!

@SasukeUchiha-mq8dw 4 ай бұрын

Can you also watch the pig war and prohibition from oversimplified please.

@lauriegoodson 5 ай бұрын

Please watch Part 2!

@americansmark 4 ай бұрын

The Pacific theater isn't taught in Europe for the most part and isn't considered part of WW2 by European historians. They consider a regional conflict involving the US.

@xviper2k 4 ай бұрын

That's because they made us do all the work (and they of course don't give us any credit for it either.)

@williamshepherd1531 4 ай бұрын

What did Switzerland do. LOL LOL LOL O. Nothing. William

@dylanvasicadrums 4 ай бұрын

9:54 you’re right, Poland’s military is getting an upgrade, they’re buying arms and vehicles from Korea and the US

@JerelleBowens 4 ай бұрын

Yea there military has been taking those US steroids

@julienielsen3746 5 ай бұрын

Yes. Part 2

@joeyboogenz 4 ай бұрын

Andre . I can't wait for you to make it over here to the States. However , things here are in bad shape now. So you ned to be extremely careful where you enter . I have some ideas as to avoid the crysis that is unfolding here now . .

@georgemartin1436 4 ай бұрын

A CLUSTER to be sure. Stay away from MOST cities!

@revgurley 5 ай бұрын

If you like old movies, "Waterloo Bridge" starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh. There are air raid scenes that, though I'm sure made different via Hollywood, but shows what citizens were doing during the Blitz.

@wildiceman 4 ай бұрын

Ip man movies touch on how bad the Japanese treated the Chinese

@lazybear236 4 ай бұрын

When talking about horses, they ignore the fact that Germany's army was mostly dependent on horses for many years after as well. In fact, Russia had similar problems as well, but the injection of massive numbers of trucks and other vehicles to Russia from the USA allowed them to have a true mechanized blitzkrieg from 1943 on.

@georgemartin1436 4 ай бұрын

TRUE. The UK also sent millions of tons of equipment there that saved Russia.

@Sirknight47 4 ай бұрын

go for it, yes part two for sure

@robertlarson7224 4 ай бұрын

My friend I have been waiting for this! You should do part 2 tomorrow!

@george217 5 ай бұрын

Ironically posted on the 79th Anniversary of Hitler's mind expansion...2

@hollycook5046 4 ай бұрын

Say what you want about Hitler, but he did k*ll Hitler

@MarcBuchheister 4 ай бұрын

jepp today poland have a great militatry.so i think russia make a mistake when they are stationated more troops on belarus-poland boarders.

@David-fm6go 4 ай бұрын

13:00 One of the civilian boats involved in the evacuation was piloted by none other than Charles Lightoller, second officer on the Titanic and most famous for his strict interpretation of the "women and children only" order. The movie Dunkirk is based on his experience.

@TheLegendaryEevee 4 ай бұрын

We need way more oversimplified reactions my friend absolutely part 2 but we have the Cold War even funny conflicts like the Emu War tons of amazing content that will definitely draw people in my friend

@wandapease-gi8yo 5 ай бұрын

Andre, there is a documentary on the Japanese occupation of Nanking. The US Ambassador was still relatively safe in the city and he did his best to help those who could be stuffed into the consulate grounds. Seeing that, talking to people in Guam, Saipan, and their relief at being freed. Then II met two men who landed at Wake Island to find the evidence of the slaughter of our servicemen who had been forced to their knees, hands tied behind their backs and shot.

@hydej1667 5 ай бұрын

Yes, part 2 please.🙂

@jimforman3754 4 ай бұрын

watch IP Man starring donny yen (sp?)

@Jack-or5zl 5 ай бұрын

just subscribe a while ago, because I want to watch part two

@mimiv3088 5 ай бұрын

Yes part 2. But afterwards can you please please please 🥺 react to Oversimplified "The Pig War"? I really think you would get a kick out of it. It's funny as heck. And part of America's history not many people know about. Thanks for your consideration. Blessings to y'all from the Great State of Texas 🤠🇺🇸

@deannaschultz1814 4 ай бұрын

The Pig War is great!!

@randallshelp4017 4 ай бұрын

Not one mention of Portugal coming to the rescue...

@buddystewart2020 4 ай бұрын

Yup, you got to post part 2.

@xirasronin 5 ай бұрын

I just love the movie “ Empire of the sun ” But I guess I had the timing all wrong. I guess I assumed it all took place after Pearl Harbor. I highly recommend that movie- - John Malkovich And I think it is a Steven Spielberg movie but don't hold me to that. You are not the only one that didn't know about Japan's full involvement in World War Two. I'm kind of excited about something new to study.

@acslater017 5 ай бұрын

2 People give Chamberlain a hard time for being naive but some would argue that he bought time for the UK. The UK had a mighty military (especially navy) but it was spread thinly around their global empire; they didn’t have the strength to fight Germany in Europe. So you could argue it was wise to hold off hostilities while the UK built up its industry and forces.

@maxmichaels5593 4 ай бұрын

yes watch part 2

@chrislykk 4 ай бұрын

@David-fm6go 4 ай бұрын

2:38 Though overlooked today, there were some pretty big differences between National Socialism and Fascism. Both were revolutionary ideologies and both were nationalistic in practice (Though it is complicated for Fascism). Fascists lacked the overall racial pseudo-science aspect that the Nazis were defined by from top to bottom. Sure there was racism and the rest present, but it was far less central to fascist ideology. Also Hitler and Mussolini nearly went to war over Austria, because the Nazis had overthrown as a Fascist dictatorship that was allied with Mussolini in the lead up to the Anschluss. It was not necessarily a certainty that they would be allies, but both alienated the British through their aggressive actions and both hated the USSR, which pushed the two of them together.

@j.j.4150 4 ай бұрын

Yep, people think they know WW2, when in reality they don't know a lot.

@georgemartin1436 4 ай бұрын

Your English is very good. I'd be shocked if you were Romanian. Your history knowledge is excellent when compared with the history knowledge of most of us in the states I assure you.

@derek2773 5 ай бұрын

Andre, it is a bit of dark and forgotten American history. But Germany's economic miracle was the result of a lot of American investment in Germany allowing militarization. I think Hitler even had a painting of Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford car company.

@derek2773 5 ай бұрын

In fact the nazi party was very popular in America. Americans primarily descend from Germany and was very reluctant to go to war with Germany.

@ozarkhillibilly9584 5 ай бұрын

FORD WAS A TRUE NAZI IN HIS BELIEFS.

@cp368productions2 5 ай бұрын

@@derek2773that's a disgusting lie, don't put us German-Americans in with that party, most of us are descendants from people who left Germany in the 1800's long before World War II. We aren't in Brazil.

@DianeCasanova 5 ай бұрын

Are the Japanese people embarrassed about the acts of their ancestors? When my daughter was at school in Germany, she was told not to mention WWII.

@MaxiusTheGod 5 ай бұрын

It’s considered shameful so it’s barely discussed. Most young Japanese people have literally no idea about it at all. Like Zero. They know the US and Japan fought and it ended with the nukes. That’s it.

@angieburks5103 4 ай бұрын

Another misconception Noah Hitler actually took a couple of I can't remember if it was his guys or if it was concentration camp or like undesirables they dressed him in Polish uniforms and put them over the Polish boundary line and said that they had attacked the Germans so that it was actually the Germans

@frontgamet.v1892 4 ай бұрын

Fun fact: The Germans never had slavery or slave markets. What the British and French achieved in 100 years with enormous slavery, Germans did in 40 years with hard work. Yes the Germans had colonies but unlike the British and French the Germans invested in these colonies because they were a base to protect our trade. Which was absolutely unthinkable at the time as everyone else in Africa was just letting hell loose. You can also look at the comparison between the British Empire and the German Empire in terms of economy. We were almost on par with the British even though we didn't even had nearly as many colonies. In addition, the British colonies contributed much more to their economy than Great Britain itself. For us it was exactly the opposite... Germany contributed 70% of the economy. The German Empire was truly an absolute high. From 1871 to 1923, the Germans were also responsible for *90* percent of ALL scientific and medical advances in the world with incredible inventions like the car, motorcycle, camera, etc. Before the British started World War I because they were jealous of us, it was actually the best 40 years ever here in Germany. Of course, based on today's technology, less so, but for the time... Absolutely unbelievable. At this time the first health insurance company was even introduced here in Germany by Otto von Bismarck. They still don't exist in the US today. Furthermore, German workers under Wilhelm II were the best paid workers in Europe.

@DarkKnight52365 4 ай бұрын

the thing that gave Germany an advantage early on in the war was the use of copious amounts of meth

@whiterabbit201 5 ай бұрын

You MUST check out "The Fallen of World War II".

@chuckbiker9400 4 ай бұрын

@deannaschultz1814 4 ай бұрын

Part 2

@jackiebinns6205 4 ай бұрын

Come on do 2 stop splitting up clips 😡

@mattb.1357 4 ай бұрын

2 watch 2 two and beyond

@OkiePeg411 5 ай бұрын

The US lost ½ a million soldiers in WWII. Our mothers lost their sons ½ a world away.

@claytonreeves8955 4 ай бұрын

Please react to James blunt monsters

@richardmartin9565 5 ай бұрын

Poland has a great army??? Be careful. Looks aren't every thing. France had a great army before WWII too.

@randallchaput9529 5 ай бұрын

#2 yes watch and react

@Cody38Super 5 ай бұрын

How in the f**k can you not.......2....

@chriswerth918 4 ай бұрын

Theese oversimplified clips are total bullshit. Do not waste ur time.

@Ppalinozz 4 ай бұрын

Not true what you said about hitler think mussolini was bad...is the opposite bro...he rescue him after the fall of fascism

@frankscarborough1428 5 ай бұрын

The atrocities committed by the Japanese were awful there's the Japanese death march. One of my teacher's grandfathers was in this the march. They were prisoners and horribly mistreated. USA aided Japan and Europe after ww2. That's why they recovered so quickly it was called the Marshall plan.